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My WSOPE Experience courtesy of APAT
Pitchie:
Final Table:
I spoke in my last post about that 89 vs JJ hand how it strangely had a positive affect on me. Firstly because it grounded me a little, but secondly it made my play on the FT less tricky. It was - excuse the phrase - **** or bust from here. If I"d have had say 220,000 coming into the FT my play would had have to have been more calculated. Now though, I was just looking for good spots to stick it in!
There were three shoves straight away that got me over 120,00 within a very short period of time. First the SB limped my BB where I held 89ss. He won"t be doing that again in a hurry! The second was from the cut off with KQcc and the third was AK from middle position which I of course show to reassure everyone I"m not doing it all lightly! Believe it or not, 120,000 of the 1.7 million chips in play is basically average stack as two players had around 400,000 each.
My image on the final table must have been good. My raises were hardly ever contested and my re-raises got through every time. I basically ABC"d my way into 4th if I"m honest. I"d love to tell you how I bluffed my way to 4th but I just played rock solid, nothing fancy. Because day 2 had ran so long, our stacks were quite shallow and that took some of the play out of it.
As players dropped out the money jumps were massive. I could hardly believe the amounts of monies involved. One thing was certain though, I had my eye on that bracelet the entire time. At no point was I contempt with a £20k, £30k or £40k finish. I so badly wanted that bracelet. Don"t get me wrong, I"d be a liar if I said I wasn"t bothered about the money, £40,000 is a life changing amount for me, but the number one concern on my mind was that little sparkly bracelet.
I"m only going to talk about my exit hand on the final table as it was only my real thinking hand. I"d played with Jeppe Bisgaard for most of day 2 and most of day 3. You could tell he plays online a lot because he had the game but you could see he wasn"t 100% accustomed to live play. He"d stack his large chips at the back and hide his cards from view so we couldn"t see his cards (not on purpose though). As I say though, he had the game.
As it folds around to me, I have A6 on the button and 4 handed I"m raising 90% of the time here unless I notice something before it gets to me. Jeppe, sticks it in! I"ve seen him put people to the test like this before with QJ, KQ and J5 if I remember rightly. This was a perfect spot for him to stick it in with anything in the middle of his range or better. He only has 12k less than me so essentially, this decision is for my tournament life.
I thought about it for some time but ultimately the maths and reads came to the conclusion that I have to call. My stack is ~210,000 and his is ~190,000. The blinds are 8,000/16,000 with a running 2,000 and I have raised to 42,000. Also I have to take into account that If I fold, I"m immediately put under pressure with the ante"s coming through me two hands later and may never recover. At least here, in this situation, I"m at worst live to 3 aces and in my mind have to call.
The rest as they say is history. I entered the event as an amateur. Played with and knocked out some of the best players in the world. Won £40,862 and finished 4th of a WSOPE event. All off the back of a freeroll essentially! Who knows how it goes from here?!
I know I only finished 4th and don"t want to get over dramatic but I have a few thank you"s I"d like to shout out.
I had the time of my life - and for that I have to thank the APAT organisation. I know ultimately it was Betfair that put me into the event and for that I am very grateful. However APAT made this happen for me. Des, Tightend, Leigh, Tikay and everyone in the background, for me, run THE BEST amateur poker events in the country. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you also to everyone that railed me over the weekend. As Des said in the updates, the spirit of the APAT is totally unique and I was totally humbled by the support to be honest. If you know me, you will know I"m absolutely rubbish with names, so please don"t be mad if I don"t remember your name if I bump into you again in the future. Also, thanks to Paul and the other guys who came down to rail me live. That was a nice touch!
Thanks to my Dad. He sat behind me for the 30 or so hours I played over the weekend never missing a beat. It was amazing to share this experience with you. Finally thanks to my friends and Sarah my girlfriend who raced down to London from Sutton to watch me play the final table (despite being at least 30 minutes late).
So that"s it. My WSOPE experience is over. But my, what an experience. On my way out last night, I caught a glance of Scott and JP playing heads up for the bracelet. I hope I get a chance to be in their position some time in the future...
AMRN:
Excellent write up Paul.
Top performance from a top bloke!
Swinebag:
--- Quote from: Pitchie on September 22, 2010, 22:49:48 PM ---
However APAT made this happen for me. Des, Tightend, Leigh, Tikay and everyone in the background, for me, run THE BEST amateur poker events in the country.
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Well done Paul, you just passed the BCPC initiation test.
seriously though, very well played and great trip report.
You lived the dream and have inspired a load of us.
Pears27:
No worries on the railing. Enjoyed every minute.
Flying out to Vegas on Friday, right? All in all an ok week? :P
janc:
--- Quote from: Pears27 on September 22, 2010, 23:14:47 PM ---
No worries on the railing. Enjoyed every minute.
Flying out to Vegas on Friday, right? All in all an ok week? :P
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I"m flying out in 14 hours
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